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EMPATH FEBRUARY 7, 1975 St. Mary's College of Maryland V 0 L - 2 “ IS SU E 7
Fee Money Unaccounted For
SGA Asks Board To Refund Surplus
THE
byA L KAREVY
Each full-time student of St.
Mary’s College has been charged
between $46 and $61 more than
necessary for the stated purposes
of the $165 General College Fee,
according to a report, released on
January 17, of the Student Senate
Finance Committee of the SGA.
In a letter to the Management
and Finance Committee of the
Board of Trustees, Tom Suddeth
and Pat Elder of the SGA Com­mittee
have proposed the General
College Fee be decreased in future
years or the surplus be refunded
this year.
The Instructional Materials
Fee, raised from $25 last year to
$165 this year, was to pay for
faculty’s 7 percent cost of living
increase, a 2.8 percent merit in­crease,
now to become an across
the board increase retroactive
September ’ 74, and a $10 insti­tutional
research fund. Noting
that even the highest estimates of
these expenditures do not come cl
ose to the total amount collected
from students, the Student Senate
Finance Committee pressed an in­vestigation
to find out how much
money was unaccounted for and
what can be done about it. Their
inquiry only turned up more dis­crepancies
(December 3 EM­PATH
editorial, Jackson Fails to
Explain Himself) with President
Jackson’ s figures, the Board of
Trustees’ figures, and what the
SGA committee thought should be
the figures. To do some of their
own accounting, the SGA com ­mittee
asked for the list of sal­aries
of St. Mary’s College em­ployees.
This list was made public
on January 9. “ The admini­stration
was very slow in acting on
our request for a salary list,” said
Tom Suddeth, “ and at first they
said they couldn’t give it to us.”
With the help of the Assistant
State’s Attorney Walter Sawyer,
Due to budgetary pressures
from Annapolis, the Office of Of-
Campus Learning (OCL) may be
dismantled and absorbed by the
Community Education program in
the near future, according to Pres­ident
J. Renwick Jackson.
If such a move comes, said
Jackson in a recent interview, it
will imply “ absolutely no negative
judgement” on OCL Director
Frank Van Aalst and his accom­plishments
of the past three years.
Stressing that the position of OCL
Director “ has never been estab­lished”
as such, Jackson pointed
out that only eight of the re ­quested
17 new staff positions
were granted by the Governor’s
budget, which has yet to pass
through the Maryland State Legis­lature.
Four of these eight are new
faculty positions. Van Aalst is a
faculty member in an admin-the
information was made public
in accordance with Maryland law.
Anyone desiring to see the list of
salaries should be able to do so at
the Dean of Students o ff ice in
Somerset Hall.
Using the salary list, the SGA
committee was able to report
what seems to be the most com­plete
figures made available so
far about the $165 fee. Suddeth
said with the list of salaries he and
Elder were able to compute the
figures “ the same way the ad­ministration
would have done it.”
Although, President Jackson said
in an interview on January 21
concerning the SGA’s figures, “ I
think its very hard to come up with
conclusive results working with
nothing but fragmentary data.”
When asked why the data was
fragmentary, Jackson said, “ No
comment.”
When examining the various
reports on students money, sev­eral
interesting observations
come to light. Jackson’s figures,
from his November 18 memoran­dum
(printed in the December 3
Empaath) are different from the
September 5 figures of the Man-agment
and Finance Committee
of the Board of Trustees. In con­trast
to this discrepancy, Sud-deth’
s and E ld e r ’ s January 17
calculations are very close to the
Board’s Sept. figures.
The amount paid by students is
$135,766.00. The major stated ex­pense
out of this figure is for the 7
percent faculty cost of living in­crease.
The actual expenditure for
this should be 7 percent of faculty
salaries, but there are diferent
figures for what that actually is.
President Jackson, in his Novem­ber
18 memorandum, estimated
$72,000. The Board’ s committee
says it would cost $40,750. Inter­estingly,
the cost arrived at by
Suddeth and Elder using the list of
fa cu lty ’ s salaries is between
istrative capability, and Jackson
claims that he has received con­tinuous
requests from the faculty
to return that position to a teach­ing
role.
The newly-formed Executive
Planning Council established by
Governor Marvin Mandel,
charged with evaluating all State
agencies in order to eliminate any
duplication or waste of manpower,
will also take a hard look at such
“ special programs” as OCL that
might be incorporated elsewhere,
in Jackson’s view.
Van Aalst said he was “ sur­p
r ised ” that Dr. Jackson was
discussing the subject with the
press, as he had been informed by
the President that the case would
await the new Provost’s consid­eration.
Saying that he desires to
“ take the case through proper
appeals channels” rather than
deal with it in the public forum of
$39,488 and $47,595, very close to
the Board’s figures. There are two
estimates by Suddeth and Elder
because they could not find out
positively whether the 10 new
faculty positions for this year are
receiving an increase or not. The
lower figure assumes they don’t,
while the higher figure does.
There is also a 6.8 percent sal­ary
increase for employees called
Special Fund Employees. This in­cludes
some maintenance work­ers,
administration assistants,
Resident Directors and other non­faculty
employees. Jackson esti-the
newspaper, Van Aalst added
that he sees faculty support for
OCL.
“ If I thought that a large number
of th students and faculty here
didn’t approve of the Off-Campus
Learning program, then I’d recon­sider
my posit ion,” said Van
Aalst. He cited the Faculty Sen­ate’s
vote of approval of the pro­gram
last April and increasing
student participation and enthus­iasm
as signs of this support.
Referring to Jackson’ s state­ment
concerning the status of his
o f f ice , Van Aalst acknowledged
the mix of administrative and
teaching duties he performs in his
faculty position. Though his office
may have once been predom­inantly
administrative in its form­ative
period, he said, he sees his
job as mostly instructional at
present. Carrying “ nearly a full
teaching load,” which he sees as
“ formulating and supervising cur­ricula,”
he feels justified in re­questing
the retention of his office
mates this cost at $25,000. The
Board committee says $15,000,
while Suddeth and Elder arrive at
a cost, again very close to the
Boards of $14,449.
The reason for this investigation
was to find out about the funds left
over that are not allocated to any
purpose, either stated or other­wise.
Jackson acknowledges, in
the November memorandum, ap­proximately
$23,920 unallocated
funds. Suddeth and Elder figure
between $41,737 and $56,828 un­accounted
funds. With the Board’s
figures close to Suddeth and El-as
a faculty position.
In addition to supervising com­munity
internships, in which par­ticipating
students re ceive 16
credits for wirking a semester in a
chosen profession and doing an
academic project related to the
job experience, Van Aalst c o ­ordinates
the India program,
which presents the opportunity to
spend an academic year enrolled
in one of three Indian univer­sities.
R. Oakley Winters, director of
Community Education, had “ no
comment” concerning the pro­posed
merger of his o f f ice and
OCL. “ I have no comment,” he
added, “ Because of no knowledge.
I just found out about this today
(Jan. 22) .” Like Van Aalst who
had just informed him of the
recent developments, Winters
seemed reluctant to discuss the
case prematurely. “ I can ’ t say
anything, and if I could, I don’t
know that I would.”
der’s, their unallocated fund must
also be close, yet the Board ap­proved
the $165 fee.
The SGA committee also asked
for other information concerning
budgetary matters, including the
state contract with Servomation
Food Service.
President Jackson said a report
responding to the SGA inquiries
will be forthcoming probably after
the Board of Trustees meeting in
Annapolis on February 10.
Andy Sends
Greetings
Andrew Chovanes, in a ma x i­mum
security section of the Mary­land
State Penitentiary in Balti­more,
sent words of greeting to the
campus via a visiting friend: “ If
you see anyone from school, tell
them ‘hello’ for me.” The visitor,
who asked not to be identified, saw
the St. Mary’s anthropology teach­er
in mid-January.
Serving a three-year sentence
for possession o f marijuana,
Chovanes is now in a 30-day ob­servation
period termed “ classi­f
ica t ion ” , during which new
prisoners are closely watched and
.tested to determine the extent of
rehabilitation necessary. During
these maximum security con­ditions,
prisoners are allowed few
visitors or personal possessions
(glasses, underwear, toothbrush),
and about an hour a day out of the
cell. Reading is restricted to re­ligious
material found in the pris­on
library. Shaving is allowed one
time each week. Cells hold two
bunks, a toilet and a sink.
“ His disposition was great; he
kept smiling all the time I was
there,” said the visitor, a member
of the College community. Report­ing
that he has “ never seen
w o rse ” food, Chovanes says he
has lost 15 pounds since his in­carce
ration. He seemed sur­prised,
according to the visitor, to
find that snow was falling outside.
Chovanes, who spent about a
week in the County jail in Leon-ardtown
at the beginning of this
year, entered the Baltimore pris­on
Jan. 9, in accordance to the
sentence imposed by County
Judge Joseph A. Mattingly.
Last week, Professor Chovanes
was moved to Southern Maryland
Correctional Camp in Hughes-ville.
This is a minimum security
prison where he is allowed visi­tors,
books and mail. Mrs. Cho­vanes
said Andy considers the
food there better than it was in
Baltimore.
If you would like to see about
seeing Andy Chovanes, or perhaps
sending him a letter, the phone
number fo r Hughesville is
274-3162.
Off-Campus Learning
Status Uncertain
by ERIC WURZBACHER
Andrew Chovanes spent his January vacation in Baltimore City Jail.
The gloomy building, just east of Mount Vernon Place, dominates the
neighborhood skyline.

EMPATH FEBRUARY 7, 1975 St. Mary's College of Maryland V 0 L - 2 “ IS SU E 7
Fee Money Unaccounted For
SGA Asks Board To Refund Surplus
THE
byA L KAREVY
Each full-time student of St.
Mary’s College has been charged
between $46 and $61 more than
necessary for the stated purposes
of the $165 General College Fee,
according to a report, released on
January 17, of the Student Senate
Finance Committee of the SGA.
In a letter to the Management
and Finance Committee of the
Board of Trustees, Tom Suddeth
and Pat Elder of the SGA Com­mittee
have proposed the General
College Fee be decreased in future
years or the surplus be refunded
this year.
The Instructional Materials
Fee, raised from $25 last year to
$165 this year, was to pay for
faculty’s 7 percent cost of living
increase, a 2.8 percent merit in­crease,
now to become an across
the board increase retroactive
September ’ 74, and a $10 insti­tutional
research fund. Noting
that even the highest estimates of
these expenditures do not come cl
ose to the total amount collected
from students, the Student Senate
Finance Committee pressed an in­vestigation
to find out how much
money was unaccounted for and
what can be done about it. Their
inquiry only turned up more dis­crepancies
(December 3 EM­PATH
editorial, Jackson Fails to
Explain Himself) with President
Jackson’ s figures, the Board of
Trustees’ figures, and what the
SGA committee thought should be
the figures. To do some of their
own accounting, the SGA com ­mittee
asked for the list of sal­aries
of St. Mary’s College em­ployees.
This list was made public
on January 9. “ The admini­stration
was very slow in acting on
our request for a salary list,” said
Tom Suddeth, “ and at first they
said they couldn’t give it to us.”
With the help of the Assistant
State’s Attorney Walter Sawyer,
Due to budgetary pressures
from Annapolis, the Office of Of-
Campus Learning (OCL) may be
dismantled and absorbed by the
Community Education program in
the near future, according to Pres­ident
J. Renwick Jackson.
If such a move comes, said
Jackson in a recent interview, it
will imply “ absolutely no negative
judgement” on OCL Director
Frank Van Aalst and his accom­plishments
of the past three years.
Stressing that the position of OCL
Director “ has never been estab­lished”
as such, Jackson pointed
out that only eight of the re ­quested
17 new staff positions
were granted by the Governor’s
budget, which has yet to pass
through the Maryland State Legis­lature.
Four of these eight are new
faculty positions. Van Aalst is a
faculty member in an admin-the
information was made public
in accordance with Maryland law.
Anyone desiring to see the list of
salaries should be able to do so at
the Dean of Students o ff ice in
Somerset Hall.
Using the salary list, the SGA
committee was able to report
what seems to be the most com­plete
figures made available so
far about the $165 fee. Suddeth
said with the list of salaries he and
Elder were able to compute the
figures “ the same way the ad­ministration
would have done it.”
Although, President Jackson said
in an interview on January 21
concerning the SGA’s figures, “ I
think its very hard to come up with
conclusive results working with
nothing but fragmentary data.”
When asked why the data was
fragmentary, Jackson said, “ No
comment.”
When examining the various
reports on students money, sev­eral
interesting observations
come to light. Jackson’s figures,
from his November 18 memoran­dum
(printed in the December 3
Empaath) are different from the
September 5 figures of the Man-agment
and Finance Committee
of the Board of Trustees. In con­trast
to this discrepancy, Sud-deth’
s and E ld e r ’ s January 17
calculations are very close to the
Board’s Sept. figures.
The amount paid by students is
$135,766.00. The major stated ex­pense
out of this figure is for the 7
percent faculty cost of living in­crease.
The actual expenditure for
this should be 7 percent of faculty
salaries, but there are diferent
figures for what that actually is.
President Jackson, in his Novem­ber
18 memorandum, estimated
$72,000. The Board’ s committee
says it would cost $40,750. Inter­estingly,
the cost arrived at by
Suddeth and Elder using the list of
fa cu lty ’ s salaries is between
istrative capability, and Jackson
claims that he has received con­tinuous
requests from the faculty
to return that position to a teach­ing
role.
The newly-formed Executive
Planning Council established by
Governor Marvin Mandel,
charged with evaluating all State
agencies in order to eliminate any
duplication or waste of manpower,
will also take a hard look at such
“ special programs” as OCL that
might be incorporated elsewhere,
in Jackson’s view.
Van Aalst said he was “ sur­p
r ised ” that Dr. Jackson was
discussing the subject with the
press, as he had been informed by
the President that the case would
await the new Provost’s consid­eration.
Saying that he desires to
“ take the case through proper
appeals channels” rather than
deal with it in the public forum of
$39,488 and $47,595, very close to
the Board’s figures. There are two
estimates by Suddeth and Elder
because they could not find out
positively whether the 10 new
faculty positions for this year are
receiving an increase or not. The
lower figure assumes they don’t,
while the higher figure does.
There is also a 6.8 percent sal­ary
increase for employees called
Special Fund Employees. This in­cludes
some maintenance work­ers,
administration assistants,
Resident Directors and other non­faculty
employees. Jackson esti-the
newspaper, Van Aalst added
that he sees faculty support for
OCL.
“ If I thought that a large number
of th students and faculty here
didn’t approve of the Off-Campus
Learning program, then I’d recon­sider
my posit ion,” said Van
Aalst. He cited the Faculty Sen­ate’s
vote of approval of the pro­gram
last April and increasing
student participation and enthus­iasm
as signs of this support.
Referring to Jackson’ s state­ment
concerning the status of his
o f f ice , Van Aalst acknowledged
the mix of administrative and
teaching duties he performs in his
faculty position. Though his office
may have once been predom­inantly
administrative in its form­ative
period, he said, he sees his
job as mostly instructional at
present. Carrying “ nearly a full
teaching load,” which he sees as
“ formulating and supervising cur­ricula,”
he feels justified in re­questing
the retention of his office
mates this cost at $25,000. The
Board committee says $15,000,
while Suddeth and Elder arrive at
a cost, again very close to the
Boards of $14,449.
The reason for this investigation
was to find out about the funds left
over that are not allocated to any
purpose, either stated or other­wise.
Jackson acknowledges, in
the November memorandum, ap­proximately
$23,920 unallocated
funds. Suddeth and Elder figure
between $41,737 and $56,828 un­accounted
funds. With the Board’s
figures close to Suddeth and El-as
a faculty position.
In addition to supervising com­munity
internships, in which par­ticipating
students re ceive 16
credits for wirking a semester in a
chosen profession and doing an
academic project related to the
job experience, Van Aalst c o ­ordinates
the India program,
which presents the opportunity to
spend an academic year enrolled
in one of three Indian univer­sities.
R. Oakley Winters, director of
Community Education, had “ no
comment” concerning the pro­posed
merger of his o f f ice and
OCL. “ I have no comment,” he
added, “ Because of no knowledge.
I just found out about this today
(Jan. 22) .” Like Van Aalst who
had just informed him of the
recent developments, Winters
seemed reluctant to discuss the
case prematurely. “ I can ’ t say
anything, and if I could, I don’t
know that I would.”
der’s, their unallocated fund must
also be close, yet the Board ap­proved
the $165 fee.
The SGA committee also asked
for other information concerning
budgetary matters, including the
state contract with Servomation
Food Service.
President Jackson said a report
responding to the SGA inquiries
will be forthcoming probably after
the Board of Trustees meeting in
Annapolis on February 10.
Andy Sends
Greetings
Andrew Chovanes, in a ma x i­mum
security section of the Mary­land
State Penitentiary in Balti­more,
sent words of greeting to the
campus via a visiting friend: “ If
you see anyone from school, tell
them ‘hello’ for me.” The visitor,
who asked not to be identified, saw
the St. Mary’s anthropology teach­er
in mid-January.
Serving a three-year sentence
for possession o f marijuana,
Chovanes is now in a 30-day ob­servation
period termed “ classi­f
ica t ion ” , during which new
prisoners are closely watched and
.tested to determine the extent of
rehabilitation necessary. During
these maximum security con­ditions,
prisoners are allowed few
visitors or personal possessions
(glasses, underwear, toothbrush),
and about an hour a day out of the
cell. Reading is restricted to re­ligious
material found in the pris­on
library. Shaving is allowed one
time each week. Cells hold two
bunks, a toilet and a sink.
“ His disposition was great; he
kept smiling all the time I was
there,” said the visitor, a member
of the College community. Report­ing
that he has “ never seen
w o rse ” food, Chovanes says he
has lost 15 pounds since his in­carce
ration. He seemed sur­prised,
according to the visitor, to
find that snow was falling outside.
Chovanes, who spent about a
week in the County jail in Leon-ardtown
at the beginning of this
year, entered the Baltimore pris­on
Jan. 9, in accordance to the
sentence imposed by County
Judge Joseph A. Mattingly.
Last week, Professor Chovanes
was moved to Southern Maryland
Correctional Camp in Hughes-ville.
This is a minimum security
prison where he is allowed visi­tors,
books and mail. Mrs. Cho­vanes
said Andy considers the
food there better than it was in
Baltimore.
If you would like to see about
seeing Andy Chovanes, or perhaps
sending him a letter, the phone
number fo r Hughesville is
274-3162.
Off-Campus Learning
Status Uncertain
by ERIC WURZBACHER
Andrew Chovanes spent his January vacation in Baltimore City Jail.
The gloomy building, just east of Mount Vernon Place, dominates the
neighborhood skyline.